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The Best Advice on Buttons I’ve found

Do you like to have such small home based business? There are a lot of people who are quite interested in starting their own business. There are many options that you will surely find and a small choice could be to craft such custom buttons for family, friends or for a business.

Making custom buttons is definitely easy. Perhaps, you have seen those small pinback buttons that you are able to find in the local toy shop or the gum-ball machine. When you have seen how easy it is to create the buttons for yourself, then you will be amazed at the many varieties of colorful buttons that you can make.

When you make such custom buttons, then you should have a button making machine, button blanks as well as good paper stock for the buttons. You need some things to begin with. The blanks are the first things that you must have. The button blanks are those small metallic forms that may or may not have such pin backing. Get to know that there are buttons with no pin. This is done so that they can be attached to the clothing with the use of a magnet to prevent to poke a hole through garments. The button blanks are being used for holding the image that is affixed with the use of the button making machine.

Also, you must have the button making machine. There are a number of options that you could find and they are manual and automatic. For instance, such simple hand-operated button machine may help the user make a button in a couple of minutes and this would include the time to cut the image template and some semi-automated machines may greatly speed up the process and help the user make 200 to 300 buttons every hour.

It is also necessary that you have the right paper for the buttons. The commonly accepted ones are 24lb in weight. Other than being very expensive, the heavier weight paper would cause the machine to jam especially if it is a smaller button machine. There is actually no benefit to that thicker, high quality paper when making buttons. The lighter weight paper could become translucent and you might have some of the metallic backing becoming nearly visible through paper. Surely, this is not the outcome that you like. The selection of paper would depend on the recommendation on the instructions of the button machine so you have to be sure that you would go through the instructions carefully. If you like to have such simple hobby, then you have to purchase a less expensive equipment first and enjoy making buttons for your friends.